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Meanings of tamp in English

Catalan
piconar
Spanish
empacar

Press down tightly.

        piconar
        Russian
        темпер

        Tool.

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                темпер

                A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)

                      Usage of tamp in English
                      1
                      These sticks were used to tamp the soil or spank it down.
                      The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
                      2
                      Mosswood raised his eyebrows and began to tamp tobacco into his pipe.
                      Street magic
                      3
                      Matthew watched as Noggin used his shovel to tamp down the dirt.
                      Mister Slaughter
                      4
                      That led the pair to tamp down their risk level starting in 2006.
                      Reuters
                      5
                      To tamp down her outrage, she forced the conversation in a different direction.
                      A fierce radiance: a novel
                      6
                      Be sure to tamp down the earth well about the posts.
                      The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
                      7
                      A thousand men could tamp a lot of ballast in a month, Martin.
                      O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
                      8
                      He paused to tamp a dollop of tobacco into his pipe.
                      Tommy's honor: the story of old tom morris and young tom morris,...
                      9
                      Red turned orange and dulled, a visible-to-me effort to tamp down his worry.
                      Walking dead
                      10
                      But she had to tamp down on a slow, tight anger.
                      Dangerous Women
                      11
                      And the cold serves to tamp down the smell of rot.
                      Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years
                      12
                      That led the pair to tamp down the fund's risk level starting in 2006.
                      Reuters
                      13
                      Envy is a great evil, and I tamp it down.
                      The new yorker
                      14
                      So I tamp down the flood of questions and ask the one that's operationally relevant.
                      Angelfall
                      15
                      It lit up social media, and Donald Trump has done nothing to tamp things down.
                      BBC
                      16
                      She heard the short, hollow tamp of footsteps, the clacking sound of the door latch.
                      "Undo": A Novel
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                      Translations for tamp
                      Tamp through the time
                      Tamp across language varieties
                      United States of America
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